Blogs from the panel “Aesthetics of the majority world” at the 2024 DSA conference, held at SOAS University of London.
The aesthetic turn opened significant academic space; it focused, though, on erudite artists in the Global North – Europe and North America. In doing so it shone light on the politics of maybe 1% of the 1%, if we consider artists as 1% of the population. In expanding analysis, though, it did not rise to the challenge of engaging with 99% of the 99%.
Paper presented by Ana Paz for the panel “Aesthetics of the majority world” at the 2024 DSA Conference held at SOAS University of London.
On 26 June 2024, we explored the aesthetics of the majority world as part of the DSA Conference, held at SOAS University of London. An aesthetic lens brings into focus sets of perspectives, narratives and conceptual frameworks that are illegible to socio-economic methodologies. The panel presented research that amplifies performing artists and local medias in…